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A health technician analyses blood samples for tuberculosis testing in a high-tech tuberculosis lab in Carabayllo in Lima, Peru May 19, 2016. Credit: Reuters

Only Handful in India Will Have Access to TB ‘Wonder Drug’ Delamanid Next Month

Disha Shetty 13/07/2018

Four-hundred doses of Delamanid, one of the last known...

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India Shouldn’t Block Research Partnerships That Can Advance Public Health

Aju Mathew 05/07/2018

Curtailing research funding from external sources may have human...

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Under Ahmedabad’s Mounting Garbage, It’s the Migrant Worker Who Is Crumbling

Goutam Kumar Mahanty and Sangeeth Sugathan 27/06/2018

Migrant workers who fuel Gujarat’s growth story face the...

The Indian government seems to be rolling out bedaquiline in a phased manner and somewhat along the lines of the US FDA Expanded Access. Credit: CC BY-SA 3.0

Expanded Access and the Bedaquiline Debate: A Practitioner’s View

Jay Desai 25/06/2018

The Indian government and DCGI already have a programme...

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Debate: India’s TB Patients Need Bedaquiline Now, Never Mind the Critics

Anand Grover 13/06/2018

The World Health Organisation reiterated its guidelines last year,...

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Mumbai’s ‘Designed for Death’ Buildings Are Incubating TB

Sukanya Shantha 10/04/2018

Poor access to natural ventilation and sunlight, and dearth...

India needs to bring down the TB incidence rate from around 200 to 10 per 1,00,000 individuals by 2025. Credit: PTI

Interview: ‘You’re Going Into a Battle on Tuberculosis, and You Need to Have an Army’

Anoo Bhuyan 24/03/2018

Narendra Modi recently reaffirmed India’s commitment to eliminating TB...